We have settled into a pretty lazy routine here. Aside from the mandatory ½ hour daily walk, we are slugs, moving only in the late afternoon to head up/down the beach to the cantina for dinner and/or margaritas. (I have disproved any allergy to tequila.)
A gastronomical review: Yesterday featured a “shrimpboil” and pot-luck salad bar in the RV Park for our group. About 60 lbs of shrimp was cooked and I went back to the feed trough three times for succulent shrimp.
Other meals at the local casita have not been so fabulous. The Mexican buffet the first night was so-so. Much better fare has come out of our kitchen in Sacramento. ….and the chicken cordon bleu the next night were tired and dry---no cheese filling either. To make matters worse, the veranda was packed with a couple tour-busses full of visitors who overwhelmed the bar waiters, causing extreme delay in the arrival of our daily dose of margaritas.
Tonight we will be dining out with compadres Gary and Kathy, nice folks from Iowa some 10 years our senior…but a very youthful duo. Of the 30 or so couples on this trip, probably 2/3 of them are over 65, with many in their 70s. A pretty lively group nonetheless.
Picture of the day:
The local casita featured a toilet with sturdy handrails---the first such contraption I have seen in a a public restroom.
Why the handrails? three possible theories:
1) Quite a few seniors among the patrons ( the handrails will be removed for spring break??)
2) Very potent tequila in the margaritas.
3) TNT in the burritos.
The reading list:
Janice is working on The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, a 'medieval epic tale'.
I am now reading Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen, a carefully researched account of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1519-22.
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